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As he gazed, the figure of a man swung lightly from one of the upper boughs of a cotton-wood on the wall and disappeared on the other side. It was evidently the clandestine visitor. Demorest was in no mood for trifling.
I would have ridden on, without halt, but our animals required rest. We had been travelling nearly all night, and throughout the morning under the friendly shelter of the cotton-wood forest. We all needed an hour or two of repose; and, seeking a secure place near the ground of the deserted camp, we stopped to obtain it. The train could not be far ahead of us.
There are also isolated patches of cotton-wood upon the sides of slopes, which afford excellent covert for deer and bears. The actual width from margin to margin of the high land does not exceed 26 miles, although the length may be 100.
As we came up to the dogs we discovered the furious animal lying across a large branch close to the trunk of a cotton-wood tree.
The willows were all out in new yellow leaves, and the sticky cotton-wood buds were on the point of bursting. Birds were calling everywhere, and now and then, through the studded willow wands, flashed the dazzling wing of a cardinal. All over the dusty, tan-coloured wheatfields there was a tender mist of green, millions of little fingers reaching up and waving lightly in the sun.
For the most part, these stony slopes are well wooded with elm, buckeye, maple, ash, oak, locust, hickory, sycamore, cotton-wood, a few cedars, and here and there a catalpa and a pawpaw giving a touch of tropical luxuriance to the hillside forest; while blackberry bushes, bignonia vines, and poison ivy, are everywhere abundant; otherwise, there is little of interest to the botanist.
Colter instantly snatched up the pointed part, and pinned his foe, quivering with convulsions to the earth. Again he plunged forward on the race for life. The Indians, as they came up, stopped for a moment around the body of their slain comrade, and then, with hideous yells, resumed the pursuit. The stream was fringed with a dense growth of cotton-wood trees.
About sixty miles up Steele's Bayou we came to the gunboat Price, Lieutenant Woodworth, United States Navy; commanding, and then turned into Black Bayou, a narrow, crooked channel, obstructed by overhanging oaks, and filled with cypress and cotton-wood trees. The gunboats had forced their way through, pushing aside trees a foot in diameter.
Don't you see he's growin better all de time? Dar; dat'll do," replied Quin, as he carried the bucket to the forecastle. "Wha wha what's the matter?" demanded Cyd. "Do you feel better, Cyd?" asked Dan, tenderly, as he permitted the patient to roll over into the standing room. "Yes, sar! 'I's born way down 'pon de Mississip; I's crossed de riber on a cotton-wood chip,"
Forests again fringe thee forests of giant trees the spreading platanus, the tall tulip-tree, and the yellow-green cotton-wood rising in terraced groves from the margin of thy waters. Forests stand upon thy banks, and the wreck of forests is borne upon thy bubbling bosom! I pass thy last great affluent, whose crimson flood just tinges the hue of thy waters.
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